THE WORLD - BLAKE CELL PHONE LOG

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following Barrett's dungeon run

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[Less than five minutes after their DM exchange, Barrett receives a text message IRL.]

Sooo what do you need this to be offline for?

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[Time to turn his notif noise all the way down before Booker starts complaining.]

Because this needs to stay between us.

I found someone.

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Someone...?

[And why the secrecy? Clearly this isn't some NPC.]

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Yeah. @ dv.

They're inside the game. I think it's somewhere completely out of bounds.

8/29, sometime in the morning when Levi is asleep probably

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Lily's hurt.

I'm with him, but just be careful in game today, alright? I'm trying to get some answers.

Let me know when you're awake. Might be in class, but hopefully I'll know more by then.

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[Levi almost drops his phone on his face when he goes to turn his alarm off and sees this.

Oh shit. Oh shit.]

Is he okay??? Did you find anything out???

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class. hold on.

[GIVE HIM LIKE FOURTY MINUTES but he does eventually get back to this--]

He brought Fandaniel into Dismal Waning Descent.

Fandaniel clawed up his arms. It's not horrible, it looks like he just dug nails in really deep. But he was bleeding really bad when I got there.

Lily isn't mad at him. I am, though.

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[You can't say "hold on" and then make him wait forty minutes--

Oh.

He sees.]

You're not the only one who's mad.

That fucking asshole. He's ALWAYS like this.

Lily probably didn't know that so I don't blame him but ugh, of all the people to have reached out to...

9/7

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Lily made the gate world Mithrun ended up in. It's why it's giving an error now.

But he isn't the one who killed him. It's one of the players.

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[Despite being alone in his room where no one can hear him, the "what the fuck" that comes out of Levi's mouth is whispered.]

Okay but how did Mithrun even get in there? Did he meet Lily at some point?

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No. Lily said he was just playing around with him because Mithrun did dungeons so much. He wanted to give him something new.

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Huh.

Did he give the code to anyone else? Testimonies made it sound like 0koto knew about it too.

9/9

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MITHRUN WOKE UP!!!!!!

he logged out right away so idk what's going on but i stg he woke up

1/2

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[Delivered 12:10pmPST]

2/2

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[8:15pmPST]

What?

When? Are you sure???

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100000% sure!!!

It was like 10 min before I texted you. I logged off as soon as it went down to send it.

He's been offline since but I am not messing with you Bear. I would not joke about this. He even took a potion from Tylor so he was sort of with it.

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[A couple minutes later:]

FlameMane sent me an email. Looks like she put something on the forums.

I'm reaching out to him now. Hold on.

9/13 late late afternoon

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Hey, Levi.

I'm feeling a little better, but one of my legs still feels kind of weird.

Just got out of the clinic, but they couldn't really find anything wrong with it. They think it was just a cramp from too much time sitting down.

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I guess I can't say much about that diagnosis. I've gotten a few cramps from long gaming sessions. And it's not like you can tell them about the weird shit going on in a VR game. (Which doesn't even sound believable to any sane person.)

Hopefully that's all it is and it goes away before your next game. I really, really hate the idea of weird physical effects from this game hitting YOU now.

[Barrett kind of needs his body to be in good condition?!]

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I already talked it over with our sports medicine PA in the clinic. Already gave me an all clear for Saturday, so I'm still playing Fresno.

I've got a compression wrap I'm gonna try to see if it really is just a bloodflow issue to my thigh or something. At least it doesn't really hurt.

I'm flying out to LA tomorrow to go see Morgan now that he's out of the hospital, but if anything happens while I'm out there I'll let you and Lucas know.

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That's good news at least!

Oh you are? Hope you have a safe flight. Can you give Mithrun my regards? We don't really know each other or anything but I'm still glad he's doing better.

9/15, Blake Residence

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[Wow someone's car is here early on a Friday, weird--

The front door opens, closes, someone comes clambering up the stairs and knocking on Levi's door.]

Levi? I'm coming in.

[If the anime says we don't ask permission in this house then who are we to disobey the anime.]

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[Levi's really not a fan of short notice plans, but he's made an exception for Barrett in this instance. He even has the proper game system set up and games spread out on the floor in front of it for Barrett to choose from.

He's sitting on his small couch in front of the TV and playing something on his phone when Barrett enters. The game is quickly paused, and he tips his head back to greet his brother.]

Hey. Come get comfortable.

[As Barrett comes around the couch, Levi holds up the bag of chips that was lying on the seat next to him. There's a cold can of soda waiting on the coffee table.]

Here. I brought some snacks up earlier.

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Oh, hey. Thanks.

[He plops down easily, letting the couch bounce under the weight of him. He still has the compression wrap over his left tight he had mentioned in their text two days prior, though it doesn't seem to be giving him any problems.

The can is cracked open with a satisfying pop of fizz, Barrett tipping it back as he looks through the games and holds up Goldeneye. He is horrible at this game but maybe sometimes you just want to shoot stuff.]

Were you waiting for me this whole time?

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[Levi's poor, cheap couch... He doesn't even react to being residually bounced, though. This is hardly the first time Barrett's plopped down beside him.]

Not the whole time. Just once I figured you were getting close.

[His gaze drifts to the compression wrap, but he doesn't say anything in favor of pointing out Barrett's choice of game.]

Goldeneye, huh? Wanna put in the cheat codes and do dumb stuff in versus mode?